Botero Quotes

Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants. ~ Fernando Botero

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work. ~ Fernando Botero

I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on canvas as a painter, but finish my work as a sculptor taking delight in caressing the forms. ~ Fernando Botero

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting. ~ Fernando Botero

A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty. ~ Fernando Botero

I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left. ~ Fernando Botero

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting. ~ Fernando Botero

I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much, ~ Fernando Botero

The painter is not simply someone who looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal vision by rendering it visible. The painter shows or allows the seeing of "something" that without him, without his intervention, would not be seen. He manifests through his work a possibility of seeing that would otherwise remain latent. In other words, painting is an art that reveals or unveils the world from an angle that the world itself does not present to us. Painting creates. It does not limit itself to imitation or reproduction. Any desire to confine painting within the limits of déjà vu would be a gross misunderstanding of the essence of what painting is. Painting allows us to see that which without it would never be seen. ~ Marcel Paquet

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation. ~ Fernando Botero